What this is. The largest harness employer in Suining, and the hardest one to describe as a single company. Three separate Lear registrations serve one industrial-park address: a 2018 branch of Wuhan Lear-DFM (15,000 m²), a 2020 branch of Lear Automotive Systems (Chongqing) in a 30,000 m² purpose-built plant, and — since 2023-04-24 — a wholly foreign-owned company, Lear (Suining) Automotive Electric, at No. 969 Yinhe South Road. Together they run roughly 1,800 to 2,700 people depending on which filing you read, on Ford, Geely, Great Wall and Volvo programmes.
Why a buyer cares. Lear is a tier-one. If you are sourcing automotive harness in southwest China, the question is not whether this plant can build — it is which legal person quotes you, invoices you, and carries the warranty. The WFOE holds ¥5M of registered capital with ¥1.6M paid in. The capacity sits in a branch of a Chongqing company. The building belongs to the park. Those are three different counterparties.
The visibility finding. A 700-person tier-one harness plant in a Chinese industrial park has no Lear-owned page describing it — in English or Chinese. The only English-language description of the Suining operation anywhere we could find is on its landlord's website, on a page whose title tag reads “Lear Corporation”.
| Field | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 1 · The WFOE this profile is filed under | 李尔(遂宁)汽车电器有限公司 · USCC 91510900MACGX0PY0G · wholly foreign-owned (外国法人独资) · incorporated 2023-04-24, term to 2043-04-23 Legal representative 宋玲凤 (from 2024-12-02; previously 陆怀谷) · general manager 王宁 · directors Jason Michael Phillips, 周曦 · supervisor 邹仪玲 100% held by 李尔(中国)投资有限公司; the filing names Lear (Mauritius) as ultimate controller | registry; 2025 filing |
| 2 · Capital | Registered ¥5M · paid in ¥1.6M (32%) thin for a plant of this headcount — normal for a Chinese WFOE whose obligations are backed by a listed parent, but it is the number on the contract, so it is the number to know | registry; 2025 filing |
| 3 · Headcount — four sources, four answers | 683 insured (2025 filing, one database) · 709 insured (another database) · “nearly 1,200” (the company's own recruitment notice) · “nearly 2,000” (the development-zone government's commissioning report for the Chongqing branch) these are probably all true of different legal entities on the same site; none of them is the number a buyer needs | four sources, listed below |
| 4 · Address | No. 969 Yinhe South Road, Suining Economic and Technological Development Zone, Chuanshan District, Suining 欧美产业园 / Europe-America Industrial Park · 30,000+ m² site | registry; park tenancy record |
| 5 · The other two registrations | 李尔汽车系统(重庆)有限公司遂宁分公司 — branch, established 2020-12, in the park's phase-2 factory No. 3, 30,000 m² built to Lear's specification; the commissioning ceremony was held 2021-12-28 with the deputy mayor attending 武汉友德汽车电器有限公司遂宁分公司 (Wuhan Lear-DFM, the Lear–Dongfeng venture) — settled 2018, in phase-1 factory No. 2, about 15,000 m² The park states the two together employ about 1,800 | development-zone government; park tenancy record |
| Field | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 6 · Product | Automotive wiring harnesses, conventional and — per the development zone's commissioning report — high-voltage harness for new-energy vehicles, plus electronic connectors. Registered scope also covers goods import and export, component R&D and design services, and non-residential property leasing | registry; government |
| 7 · Customers | Ford · 神龙 (Dongfeng Peugeot-Citroën) · Geely · Great Wall · Volvo stated by the industrial park, which has an interest in promoting its tenants; no OEM award letter or audit record is public | park tenancy record |
| 8 · Planned investment | Intelligent high-bay warehouse, smart logistics, Industry 4.0 lines, and high-voltage harness capacity for new-energy vehicles — with the stated goal of becoming Lear's benchmark plant for Asia-Pacific announced at commissioning in 2021; no public progress report since | government, 2021-12-28 |
| 9 · Connector platforms · wire range · pull-force · IPC/WHMA-A-620 class · MOQ · lead time | Not published — all six. For a tier-one this is normally disclosed through the OEM programme rather than a website, so the blank here means “ask Lear”, not “cannot do it”. | — |
| Field | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 10 · Parent | Lear Corporation, Southfield, Michigan, NYSE: LEA · Fortune 500 (ranked 179 in 2021, on US$19.3bn sales) · 38 countries · in China since 1996, with 58 manufacturing sites and 22,000 employees at the time of the company's own 2023 description, and 77 sites / 31,000 staff across Asia-Pacific | company recruitment material; lear.com |
| 11 · Local certifications | Quality management system · environmental management system · occupational health and safety management system — three system certificates on file No certificate number, no certification body and no IATF 16949 record is published for this entity. For an automotive tier-one that is the one certificate a buyer must see, and the local entity publishes none. | certificate register |
| 12 · Local litigation | None found for the 2023 entity no enforcement, no dishonest-debtor listing, no consumption restriction | aggregated court records, checked 2026-11-01 |
| 13 · Wages advertised locally | Assistant engineer (rotation across engineering, quality, logistics, maintenance) ¥4,500/month; English-capable graduate reserve ¥4,000–5,999/month, both posted for 2023 graduates Useful calibration for what a county-level engineering role costs here, and for how deep the local engineering bench is likely to be | university careers listings, 2023-10 |
| Field | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 14 · No Lear-owned page | We could not locate any page on a Lear-controlled domain that describes the Suining plant — in English or Chinese. The corporate homepage carries no mention of Suining at all. Lear's China presence is described in aggregate (“58 manufacturing sites”), never plant by plant. | direct checks 2026-11-01 |
| 15 · The only English description belongs to the landlord | The park's own bilingual site carries a tenant page with eleven mentions of Suining, the two factory areas, the customer list and the combined headcount. Its <title> is simply “Lear Corporation” — the page ranks for Lear's name while being owned by a Chinese industrial park.no hreflang, so the Chinese and English versions are not linked as translations of each other | en.eaip-sn.com, checked 2026-11-01 |
| 16 · What the company itself publishes | Recruitment notices only — and those are hosted on a university careers portal and on the development zone's website, not on any Lear property. The company's registered contact address is a corporate mailbox on the global lear.com domain. There is no local site, no local domain, and no local page to correct. | direct checks 2026-11-01 |
| 17 · The date that does not agree | Every piece of company and government copy says the Suining operation “was established in December 2020”. The entity in this profile was incorporated on 2023-04-24. Both are correct: the 2020 date belongs to the Chongqing branch, the 2023 date to the WFOE. a buyer reading “established 2020” and checking the entity they were given will find a three-year-old company with ¥1.6M paid in | registry; company and government copy |
Absence here is not the same failure as absence elsewhere in this directory. Ruithai has no website because nobody built one and the domain now half-works. Lear Suining has no website because a tier-one sells through programme awards, not through search — and for that business model the omission costs nothing. A buyer will not find this plant on Google and does not need to.
What it does cost is legibility. Three registrations, one address, headcounts of 683 / 709 / 1,200 / 2,000, a founding date that is either 2020 or 2023, and a WFOE with ¥5M registered and ¥1.6M paid in sitting on top of capacity that belongs to a branch of a Chongqing company in a building owned by the park. None of that is irregular. All of it has to be resolved before a purchase order, and none of it can be resolved from anything Lear publishes.
And the small irony worth noting. The single best English description of a Fortune 500 plant in Suining was written by its landlord — a page titled “Lear Corporation” that Lear did not make, does not control, and cannot correct.
Open fields, not a rating. (1) Which legal person signs. Ask for the contracting entity's USCC and match it against 91510900MACGX0PY0G — a branch of the Chongqing company, a branch of Wuhan Lear-DFM and the WFOE are three different counterparties with different capital, different liability and different tax treatment. (2) IATF 16949 certificate number for the specific site, and whether the certificate covers the Suining address rather than the Chongqing or Wuhan parent. (3) High-voltage harness: is HV capability actually installed, or still the 2021 plan? Ask for a PPAP or a programme reference on an EV platform. (4) Connector platforms and applicators held on site. (5) Whether the plant is tooled for a given OEM's terminal system or buys terminated leads. (6) Commercial terms — MOQ, lead time, and whether engineering changes are handled locally or routed to Shanghai. (7) Parent guarantee or comfort letter, given the paid-in capital.